>> president biden: 90% of americans in afghanistan who wanted to leave for able to leave. todd: it is wednesday september 1st, president biden hailing the affect and evacuation as next ordinary success despite american citizens left behind, 13 us servicemembers losing their lives. jillian: the taliban and its supporters operating through the streets wasting fake caskets in celebration of american lives lost. todd: we learned one afghan ally who helped rescue president biden is one of thousands and is

begging the president to save him. we begin with the fox news alert and fallout as president biden addresses the nation following the end of america's longest war. >> reporter: republicans are calling on him to resign in the wake of the deadly withdrawal. doug luzader has more. >> the president sounded angry at times as he delivered the address from the white house defending his decision to pull us forces out of afghanistan and describing the departure of the lift is a big success despite the depth of 13 us servicemembers killed during the operation and the fact that 100 or more americans who wanted to leave for left behind. the president said most got out. they worked to secure the release of the others and also blames donald trump.

>> my predecessor signed an agreement with the taliban to remove us troops by may 1st, included no requirement the taliban work out a cooperative arrangement with the afghan government. >> reporter: with the taliban and in control the remaining us citizens face pretty limited options, the administration is promising to help but how that plays out is unclear. in washington's lawmakers are calling the president to resign or face impeachment. >> this is not an intelligence community failure, this is a failure of leadership. >> another 9 one one is coming. our allies don't respect us and our enemies don't fear us. >> meantime a bipartisan group of 150 lawmakers is pushing legislation toward the congressional gold medal to the

13 us servicemembers were killed and that legislation calls, quote, the deadliest single day of the war for the united states in more than a decade. todd: you can't commit arson claim credit for putting the fire out when part of the building is still burning and that is what president biden decided to do and in what world is the image we are about to show of the taliban rating caskets not only of the united states flag but our allies, france and britain, in what world is this considered an extraordinary success? let's remind everybody in three weeks president biden destroyed the credibility of america's promises to the world basically making our promises less useless. he emasculated the notion of american power in this world literally armed an enemy we've been trying to disarm for 20 years and made a terror attack

on our homeland much easier to coordinate from the grounds of afghanistan. jillian: the taliban and hoisting this caskets tough to digest, what the president said yesterday that 90% of americans who wanted to leave could leave and those are still there, there's no deadline, the white house saying that number was 98%, not 100%, what are the options to get people out who are in afghanistan who want to leave, the window is closing and closing even more, that is what it seems anyway. listens what jake sullivan had to say. >> there two ways, working closely with other countries to get charter air flights going to accept american citizens. what we've got is a commitment that any afghan with valid

travel documentation inkling special immigrant visa shall be allowed safe passage. jillian: what is the safe passage looking like, we talked to two students who go to american university of afghanistan and they are petrified and one girl, i don't want to leave my house to get food, her friends have been receiving threats to their phone saying they will be raped and killed, do people feel safe to leave their homes to make the trek to the airport or wherever they want to go via ground transportation not to mention tuesday the state department issued a travel advisory, the most severe travel advisory level saying, quote, due to civil unrest, armed conflict, crime, terrorism, kidnapping and covid 19 the issue's alert, the superlative statuses is the risk of kidnapping violence against us citizens in afghanistan is

high noting the us embassy is closed, those operations this begs the question is more details how they get back out. jillian: you will still get them out but for a lot of people seems like that's not enough. todd: give us more consistency on the messaging, if you miss jillian's interview with the young lady yesterday, it was telling that heartbreaking. check it out. let's focus on the speech, to me a speech the void of the qualities you look for in the strong leader. leadership is vital at a time like now and that speech didn't evoke leadership. it is a tragically unique perspective that of a gold star mom who lost her son a week ago. i feel she summed it up perfectly. >> if mister biden would like to

tell me how i can sleep better at night right now or any american can please give me a call and let me know how i can sleep tonight all night. my son didn't make it home. it is on your watch because he was doing his job well. >> one of 13 families, thousands of others lost loved ones in service over the course of a 20 year war. and you can decide how you feel about it but what the president said yesterday meet this moment in time. this is the end of the 20 year war, the majority of this country feels so much turmoil about how this went down. did it meet the moment? todd: how does the setup to an

extraordinary success? jillian: we will follow that and fox news alert is the urgency is underway for 5 missing crewmembers after u.s. navy helicopter crash, it went down off the san diego coast while conducting routine flight operations after taking off from the us's abraham lincoln. one crew member was rescued overnight, their condition is unknown at this time. president biden taking a victory lap even though his exit strategy had deadly consequences. todd: j kyle isn't buying it and wants to know what happened to american might, response to the president's address next. ♪

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>> president biden: the success of this mission was due to fill and selfless courage of the united states military. some say we should have started mass evacuations sooner. this couldn't have been done in a morally manner. i respectfully disagree. >> president biden defending his

decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan and coming beer lift operation and extraordinary success. jillian: what about 13 service men and women and hundreds of americans and afghan allies left behind. widow of americans later u.s. navy seal chris kyle here to react. do you agree with the president the last 3 weeks of been an extraordinary success? >> know. it is 100% been a difficult time for everybody, it has been one of the biggest disasters we've had. it is not the withdrawal that would happen anywhere else. the speech was riddled with platitudes, false dilemmas acting as if it was so oversimplified that we only had one or 2 choices which are not the choices we had. jillian: to this choice, for you, did this meet the moment, 20 years in the making, thousands of lives that have

been lost. what did you make of it culminating to what he had to say yesterday? >> such hubris from them and so unwarranted. dan crenshaw said it is akin to an arsonist setting a fire then congratulating himself or putting the fire out while there are people still burning inside the house and make no mistake with the taliban in control and partnering with china and russia and having the middle eastern part of the world in this dangerous sort of power triangle there is a huge impact that goes to iraq, iran, syria, israel, india, this is a disaster, knowledge is the way he withdrawn but not having any small presence, the way the government could go on and on but act as if we trained our

people to fight the taliban there are systemic problems. anyone in afghanistan or iraq could tell you that area they are not ready to have hope and be empowered and step in. this is systemic in their culture, doesn't work this way, extraordinarily difficult and one seal said he felt like throwing the computer across the room and he always maintains control. todd: surface members and their families hear their commander-in-chief talk like this when it comes to their presence in the world, power in the world, what goes through their minds? >> morale totally declined, with retention and readiness, that is totally plummeted. ultimately they are at the mercy of the commander-in-chief, they've seen people on the ground scrambling to take care of the mess the administration made and it is the people on the

ground and behind the scenes trying to correct for the administration taking credit for everything that went well when we know this will have a huge impact and i'm not one to make something out of nothing. i'm usually hope and late and i see the positive. this is dangerous when you see the television having control on $1 trillion of mineral wealth this will have a global impact unlike anything we've ever seen and on the point we go from ronald reagan saying mister gorbachev, tear down this wall to this president playing a mother may i game with the taliban and not taking opportunity to take control of kabul and the airport to get us out in a safer manner and here's a list of americans in your country and we trust you.

it is not ignorance. i don't know. i don't want to get too drastic but it is beyond ignorance and i think it is frightening. jillian: a few seconds left before we let you go i was reading an article in the washington examiner talking about veterans affairs suicide hotline inundated with calls the last few weeks and family members serve even though you don't go overseas you are still serving because you are still sacrificing so much for those families out there, those veterans out there everybody out there who is going through this what do you say to them? >> a difficult time. we are here to help service members, 80% of suicides are relationship related, no fault of the relationship but they need a safe place and let's be

realistic, any spouse right now is begging their servicemember to get out because they have no trust in this, putting them in more harm's way, not battle ready like they should be put in a way they can't be prepared for. jillian: thank you for joining us in your service and we are so sorry for everything you've been through. people are getting desperate free sandals like gas and water after hurricane ida. todd: fears that this could spike nationwide. >> reporter: look at show, marathon in the gulf and on the coast ahead of ida, refineries remain shutdown after sustaining damage. according to gasbuddy 20% of gas

stations in baton rouge ran out of fuel tuesday night, 35% in several areas gas gone by mid afternoon. frustrated drivers taking to social media showing long line stretching half a mile long. press secretary jen psaki says the dot will expand truck drivers to work longer hours to get the fuel to the state. the entire state battered by ida but this is going on for a while because of the refinery. jillian: a shakeup at the fda. >> two vaccine leader stepping down at a crucial time for the agency reportedly planning to leave over disagreements about administering booster shots. president biden has not appointed a permanent fda chief. thanks to opposition from senator joe manchin it won't happen with her, she's leaving, several senators disapprove of

her handling the approval process, and the booster shots to the american public. >> if you need more proof that the squad does not comprehend economics. >> no idea what they are talking about. the squad, aoc, rashida tlaib and others want president biden to fire federal reserve chair jerome powell. they say to move forward with the whole of government approach that illuminates the climate risk while making this happen we are committed to these objectives. aoc tweets about our chance to reimagine eliminating climate, advancing racial and economic justice, jerome powell in 2012 was appointed by president barack obama. i'm not sure these women understand what the federal reserve does. that is not in their purview

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areas the don't have air-conditioning, temperatures well over 100 degrees so that's a big concern of mine. wednesday, thursday, friday, temperatures in the 90s, with the heat index warmer than that and a chance of thunderstorms as well, there is your forecast for the rest of today, ida's remnants, one more thing for you, tropical storm larry, we have to watch this. we think it will curve northward away from land but we still have to watch it. todd: fred and larry, great names the cycle. >> janice: i didn't name them. of florida police department honoring fallen service members killed in kabul. the police about arranging 13 patrol cars in the shape of a heart to pay tribute to the young heroes who died assuring others to freedom. the police chief jeff odell joins me. how did you come up with this?

>> thanks for having me on this morning. wheel a debt of gratitude to the men and women who serve in our military and they take a duty and responsibility the majority don't like to do but like law enforcement officers they understand the risk associated with the job they perform and are not expendable and as a grateful nation and grateful community, anytime we lose somebody from military or law enforcement. >> police officers and you can sneak position to understand the sacrifices by those who put themselves in harm's way for their job on a day in and day out basis. >> it is a difficult job and i think it was a week and a day after the 4-year anniversary of us losing two members murdered

in the line of duty, and i saw what kind of tributes or impact tributes like this had on members of the agency as they heal in the aftermath of losing their brother officers whether somebody from our community or across the country it helped reinforce why they put on a uniform every day and demonstrated the majority of our country support what they do and are up for she is too of what they do. todd: a lot of us are honoring and thinking these individuals but you want step further. why was it important to your team to honor these brave souls the way you did? >> we are a paramilitary organization. i did not serve in the military. my father is a marine, i was born in camp lejeune, north carolina but we have a number of

servicemembers that make up the sworn ranks of our department, foreign military and active reservists. it was important to them to be honoring the men and women who gave their lives to the service of the country. todd: there has been a paul over the country, sort of an attack on the american spirit but a lot of tributes over the course yours included. what does that tell you about the american spirit and the power of it right now? >> it is alive and well. i am appreciative of you highlighting this, the majority of our citizens and understand sacrifices they make every day. todd: chief jeff odell, we will be right back, thank you.

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>> reporter: president biden defending how the evacuations were handled despite thousands of afghan allies stranded and in hiding in afghanistan. >> president biden: 90% in afghanistan were able to leave and for those remaining americans there is no deadline, no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kind of complexities, challenge and threats we face. >> when haqqani left behind, an interpreter who once saved biden along with senators john kerry and chuck hagel during a snowstorm in an afghanistan valley in 2008. that interpret issuing a plea to the president in the wall street journal asking president biden to help him, his wife and four

children escape the taliban and. his identity shielded he says hello, mister president, save me and my family, don't forget me here. the white house thanking the interpreter for his service but not indicating when or how he could be rescued. the white house doubling down on the claim that nobody could have known the afghan army would collapse even as a transcript surface revealing biden's pressure to give the perception the taliban wasn't winning in july and the pentagon acknowledging americans are stranded. >> that doesn't mean the administration or the government will turn a blind eye to help them get home and it is not unlike we do in other countries around the world when we have americans that are stranded or need help getting out. jillian: the white house is defending president biden's broken promise to remain in afghanistan until all american citizens are evacuated. and psaki say the decision to leave americans behind was to protect troops from other attacks.

todd: the notion that no one could have known the afghan government would collapse the way it did. afghan military and afghan government, we had countless intel officers on our program who said we did know. we had a sense that that could happen, the intel was there. for the president to double down on that is disingenuous and from human to human perspective the individual mohammed who saved president biden and the other two senators if somebody saved your life wouldn't he be number one on your list? wouldn't you pull every rabbit out of a hat to make sure that individual and his family were the one saved first? i don't understand. >> many argue everybody should have been saved out of afghanistan. >> there is an order. i would have bumped that guide to the top of the list. jillian: we don't talk about it merely enough, what our military

has been able to do under these circumstances, the threats they've been under in dealing with on the ground they are incredible, we say they are heroes but they are. the the airlift, everything those troops on the ground accomplished under those circumstances they deserve so much credit. wrapping my mind around what they deserve all the credit in the world, they deserve all our thanks and everything. it saddens me that we had veterans in the last few weeks calling for hotlines because they are upset or suicidal or having a hard time with what is going on. think of the thousands of troops over there for the last 20 years looking at all their work

diminishing to this point where we still have americans and allies over there. that's a thought to handle so we need to focus on them, make sure our heroes are okay, their families are okay because they did incredible work over there. todd: what they did under normal circumstances would be an amazing feat in and of itself. under these circumstances that our governments put the minute is mind blowing what they did. jillian: 13 can brave servicemembers killed in afghanistan snubbed on the house floor. >> carley shimkus with details on this move. >> check this tweet from carlos jimenez who sums up the situation saying how badly do nancy pelosi and the house democrats want to cover up the afghanistan debacle? they just lost members of congress reading names of servicemembers who sacrificed their lives in afghanistan,

don't you think the military deserves better? craig steube tells a similar story, saying we refuse to recognize republican veterans on the house floor to read names of fallen servicemembers in afghanistan, that's how far the nation has fallen. a group of republicans gather on the house floor to be recognized, the names of the fallen servicemembers and afghanistan legislation and speaker pelosi refused the request. a legislation tell me if this seems extreme, it was brought forward by congressman mike gallagher and the bill requests a plane from the biden administration how to bring americans am requesting an accounting of all military were left behind and transparency on the biden administration, maybe the taliban and. hopefully the legislation has bipartisan support. todd: how can anyone not vote for that.

>> gentlemen gets bipartisan support. >> we question facebook's motives but the latest move. >> one of the servicemembers who died in afghanistan last week, his mother, hope i'm pronouncing her name correctly, instagram deleted her account. a really touching post about her son's death and criticize the biden administration on august 30th she wrote my son's. on your hands, all 13 of them, their blood is on your hands, she said instagram then deleted the account and instagram responded it was a mistake. we express our deepest condolences to ms. chapelle in the family, tribute to her growing son does not violate any of our policies. the post was not removed, her account was incorrectly deleted and we have since restored it.

always seems to be a mistake but if she was criticizing trump i'm sure the mistake wouldn't have happened. todd: she was criticizing biden. >> if she was processing trump i'm sure that mistake wouldn't have happened. todd: sean hannity expressed what we are feeling, anger and frustration and insanity that is happening in our world and what they brought up his mind blowing. time, 42 after the hour, to virginia. jillian: lawrence jones is having breakfast with friends. where are they? >> we are just outside fort louise, talking to folks, and they lost their lives protecting americans but also fighting for freedom at the keystone right after this quick break.

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todd: lawrence jones joins us to react, the quote from msnbc host julie read, the real life and made tail, cautionary tale of the us, our own far right religious right dreaming of a theocracy that would impose a particular brand of christianity, drive women from the workforce, childbirth and control, all politics. how is guided is a sentiment like that? >> it began based on the fact when i think of christians in this country they are the ones in the middle east rescuing people on private charters because the us government couldn't do their job adequately enough when this group that are setting people on fire, one of the reasons i got this task on my arm which is a follower of christ because at the time isis was sending christians on fire

in the middle east because they were followers of christ and i want to to stand in solidarity with them but julie read doesn't care about the facts and how it is impacting americans. this rhetoric will come to a head very soon because most americans see what is going on, christians putting their life on the line to save other folks from different religious backgrounds. jillian: you are in that area for a reason, fort lee is handling afghan refugees. i'm curious what people you will talk to later this morning have to say. thousands of refugees have come for short-term medical care and visa processing. what questions do you have for people you are going to talk to? >> i want to go to our veterans,

fort lee, right outside, i want to know how they feel about the president and his statement, his leadership but also some of these resettlement programs, we did go and save a lot of folks but a lot of these folks we did, some of them were not necessarily allies but trying to leave the country and there's a process to go through. they decided to usurp the process because there is so much going on in the biden administration did not adequately handle this process. i want to talk about how they feel about this and the president did a lot of screaming yesterday, how do they feel about that? todd: and unbelievable speech, big morning ahead, appreciate you going to these great towns and cities talking to folks looking forward to it coming up all morning long on "fox and friends". thank you. >> see you soon. jillian: an interpreter who once

helped rescue president biden during his 2008 visit to afghanistan is stuck behind enemy lines, begging the president to save him. todd: pete hegseth served in afghanistan and speaks out next.

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>> phil, i think it's irresponsible to say americans are strapped. they are not. >> not completely like the way we do it elsewhere around the world. i mean we have americans who get stranded in countries all the time. we do everything we can to try to facilitate safe passage. todd: the biden administration defending leaving americans in taliban territory insisting that the terror group will actually help them get out. jillian: here is "fox & friends weekend" co-host pa pete hegseth. thank you for your was. the president says he takes responsibility for the decision but respectfully displee disagrees this could have been done in a more orderly manner. >> do you think this could have

been done in a more orderly manner where we wouldn't have people stranded in afghanistan. >> could it have been done in a less unorderly manner? could it have been done more chaotically? i don't think so. that's why no one has the feeling that joe biden had the feeling yesterday that it was extremely successful. that's why he yelled at us the whole time. how why don't you get that this fiasco is actually success, extremely successful. and then he would look into the camera and say things like this bottom line, we were able to get 90% of americans that wanted to come out out of the country. excuse me? is that the mo motto leave only 90% behind and the rest of you, you are stranded except we won't say that but don't worry, there is a strongly worded u.n. resolution out there that i'm sure the taliban will adhere to that will ensure you get your safe passage. it's the contradictions of the entire event, it's the way in which he walked to the podium

and sold us the same old talking points and then built a strawman as if he was the only one that wanted to get out of afghanistan and this was the only way to do it. we all wanted to get out. but the only way to get out is to do so on our terms and strongly. and now, i'm sure you reported it this morning. now we know that he knew he knew how quickly this was going to descend. he had the conversation with the afghan president who said hey, i don't know what the -- i don't know if the perception is real or not real but you need to do something about it joe biden didn't do what he needed to do when he needed to do it. he either ignored advice from generals that told him to do otherwise or the generals gave him bad advice and he continued with it either way the buck stops with him. todd: let's listen to joe biden following 9/11. here is his thoughts on afghanistan. >> we cannot and certainly will not walk away from 7 million displaced dispirit afghannians.

surviving on little more than grass and locusts. i'm reluctant to use the word nation building, but if we leave afghanistan in chaos, it will be never time bomb waiting to explode. todd: i'm sure when peter doocy asks about this they will do word play in the white house how he didn't say what he said in 2001. based on what i heard didn't joe biden literally do what he said we shouldn't do back in 2001? >> of course he did. you know, i will give him a little bit of grace here. a lot of us thought a lot of things about afghanistan in 2001 that once we went there we were mugged by reality and understood the limitations. myself included. but what you can't do now is lie about the reality there. and the ending of joe biden's speech yesterday, he said the future, let's look to the future. the future is safer because of these actions. and that's where everywhere american looks at the tv sideways and says really? we have a legitimized terrorist

state in the taliban with all of our weapons, and with the same relationships with al-qaeda and haqqani that they had before, and china, oh, by the way happy to enable them to be a thorn in our side in the ways necessary. so, unfortunately, and for a vet who spent a year of my life as a part of that effort, you don't want to believe it's worse than it was before, but right now, except for our ability to strike with drones, which has become far more sophisticated, the situation is not better than it was before 9/11 2001. jillian: pete, i have been following your story with one of the interpreters and his family. it's been so touching to see. so many veterans out there understand how important these interpreters are and i think for a lot of us we didn't fully understand that until these last few weeks. and the fact that you have this report about joe biden's afghan interpreter who helped rescue him in 2008.

he helped rescue him in 2008 is still there and begging to get out. what do you make of this? >> there's some defining mommy's of crises. one of them is marine lieutenant colonel sheller he is the only one fired. joe biden leaves the very ally that was there for him personally in 2008 in the mountains of afghanistan when he was stranded on a helicopter and a unit had to go out and get him mohammed then 36 years old volunteered to drive through the snow in taliban country to go get three senators, one of which would be a future president. when you read about what his fellow vets said about him. one vet said if you can only help one afghan, choose mohammed, he earned it. the haste with which we left is the reason why mohammeds are left behind. one of which saved the life of the president of the united states. it didn't have to be it this way. yes, we air lifted hundreds of

thousands, but we did so in a hasty manner, not vetting many of them and left guys like mohammed behind. jillian: gives me chills to hear you say that. todd: if this guy saved your life and you were the president, wouldn't he be number one on your list? pete: you would think so. todd: "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> a combatant commander-in-chief defending his decision. >> i refuse to continue a war no longer in the national interest of our people. >> they are trying to sell there on this false narrative between having to stay and leaving the way we did. it's just not true. >> this mr. biden tried to blame former president trump for the hasty exit. >> this is one thing that he had to follow. they are passing it off and blowing it off. >> the remnants of ida are threatening the east coast. >> it's amazing the storm system that has been impacting so much of the south for days is still active. >> white house covid-19 czar